Referring to the surrounding ecosystem of the planet Earth, its natural mechanisms and balances, and study of the effects of human interaction with it.
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Claim that CO2 is less relevant because it is logarithmic
This video presents and claims that doubling the CO2 levels would only increase the global warming by 1%, whatever that means. Now it seems like the graph contains real data, so what is up with the claim? My only guess would be that the heating…
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Does crop burning in Cambodia contribute to particulate levels in Bangkok?
Bangkok is currently coping with unhealthy levels of PM2.5 particulates.
On the 26th of January, the Bangkok Post wrote an article with the following passage on a link with Cambodian crop burning:
Pollution Control Department (PCD) director-general…
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Is Plant-e an actual company stating a serious premise?
This is what I read beforehand and then I reached the company page.
They state that plants produce energy. This happens when releasing stuff from the photosynthesis process, which is consumed by bacteria among their roots, and that process releases…
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Does a personal choice to eat less meat help the environment?
An oft-quoted way to reduce one's Carbon footprint is to eat less meat. I believe there is even a day of meatless meals that is planned, presumably as an awareness campaign, every year. However, I have an issue with this thinking: the meat I'd buy…
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Microbeads - needless and damaging?
A Greenpeace petition says:
Plastic microbeads are needlessly used in cosmetics. They damage our oceans and the creatures that live in them.
Are microbeads used needlessly?
Are they damaging to oceans and the creatures that live in them?
What is…
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Is nuclear winter a doomsday scenario like the media depicts it?
While a nuclear war will obviously cause significant environmental harm to the earth, after doing some research on the subject I'm starting to find facts that make me question whether it would actually be a doomsday scenario like the media depicts…
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How much daylight does daylight-saving save?
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What are the scientifically established effects of Daylight Saving Time?
If we did not have daylight-saving, then would the days still be longer in the summer?
If not, then what is it for?
Does it have any advantages? For…
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Does the decision to fly or not have no impact on GHG emissions inside the EU?
A discussion paper published at the University of East Anglia holds that due to the cap-and-trade scheme, a decisions to fly or not has no impact inside the European Union.
Quoting from the press release, Emissions trading schemes limit green…
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Does Beck's chemical analysis of CO₂ discredit the Law Dome ice core findings?
On RealC02 summarizing Ernst-Georg Beck's work, this history of CO₂ levels are posted for the 19th century:
SkepticalScience, on its "How reliable are CO₂ measurements?" page says "CO₂ levels are measured by hundreds of stations scattered across 66…
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Skeptical about claim that humans do not contribute significantly to climate change
This is an upvoted comment from a climate change denier posting on YouTube:
Vivek [Ramaswamy]’s statement on climate change was correct, and this immensely helped the Republican brand: Earth's atmosphere is only .04 percent CO2, and humans only…
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Does carbon dioxide pollute the atmosphere?
Following the explosive growth in the use of coal for industrial processes, in which the UK from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s was memorably darkened with soot, the public became aware of "pollution". Black carbon, nitrides, sulfides, heavy…
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